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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BALUSTER VASE (VASE 'INDIEN E')
Lot 58

A SEVRES PORCELAIN BALUSTER VASE (VASE 'INDIEN E')

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G FOR 1759, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX

Closed24 October 2012

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BALUSTER VASE (VASE 'INDIEN E')
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G FOR 1759, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX
Of quatrefoil form, painted to one side with a musical trophy, a pilgrim's trophy to the obverse, the sides with floral sprigs, all between blue line, gilt dash and gilt line rims
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Property of a Member of the Rothschild Family; Christie's, London, 24 February 2003, lot 58.

Specialist note

This form, one of the first created at Vincennes before 1953, was conceived to hold an onion plant.
Charles Buteux (later père), a painter of figures, trophies and flowers, was active at Sèvres from 1756 to 1782.

Similar examples, painted with flowers, are illustrated by T. Préud and A. Fäy-Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 1977-1978, p. 144, nos. 432-436. Also see M. Brunet and T. Préaud, Sèvres des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 135, no. 37.